The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer (AMEGO-X) Mission Concept
Abstract
The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer (AMEGO-X) is designed to identify and characterize gamma rays from extreme explosions and accelerators. The main science themes include: supermassive black holes and their connections to neutrinos and cosmic rays; binary neutron star mergers and the relativistic jets they produce; cosmic ray particle acceleration sources including Galactic supernovae; and continuous monitoring of other astrophysical events and sources over the full sky in this important energy range. AMEGO-X will probe the medium energy gamma-ray band using a single instrument with sensitivity up to an order of magnitude greater than previous telescopes in the energy range 100 keV to 1 GeV that can be only realized in space. During its three-year baseline mission, AMEGO-X will observe nearly the entire sky every two orbits, building up a sensitive all-sky map of gamma-ray sources and emission. AMEGO-X was submitted in the recent 2021 NASA MIDEX Announcement of Opportunity.
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@article{arxiv.2208.04990,
title = {The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer (AMEGO-X) Mission Concept},
author = {Regina Caputo and Marco Ajello and Carolyn Kierans and Jeremy Perkins and Judith Racusin and Luca Baldini and Matthew Barring and Elisabetta Bissaldi and Eric Burns and Nicolas Cannady and Eric Charles and Rui Curado da Silva and Ke Fang and Henrike Fleischhack and Chris Fryer and Yasushi Fukazawa and J. Eric Grove and Dieter Hartmann and Eric Howell and Manoj Jadhav and Christopher Karwin and Daniel Kocevski and Naoko Kurahashi and Luca Latronico and Tiffany Lewis and Richard Leys and Amy Lien and Lea Marcotulli and Israel Martinez-Castellanos and Mario Nicola Mazziotta and Julie McEnery and Jessica Metcalfe and Kohta Murase and Michela Negro and Lucas Parker and Bernard Phlips and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Soebur Razzaque and Peter Shawhan and Yong Sheng and Tom Shutt and Daniel Shy and Clio Sleator and Amanda Steinhebel and Nicolas Striebig and Yusuke Suda and Donggeun Tak and Hiroyasu Tajima and Janeth Valverde and Tonia Venters and Zorawar Wadiasingh and Richard Woolf and Eric Wulf and Haocheng Zhang and Andreas Zoglauer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.04990},
year = {2022}
}
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23 pages, 16 figures, Published Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems